How to build smp kernel

[Christopher Brown]

On 11/11/2007, Feng Xian <feng.xian at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>   I had a 16-core machine and tried to build a smp version of
>  linux-2.6.23 kernel. I did the following steps:
>
>  1. make menuconfig ( actually I didt change the configuration since it
>  builds SMP support by default)
>
>  2. make; make modules; make modules_install; make install
>
>  But the final image file is  vmlinuz-2.6.23, not vmlinuz-2.6.23smp. Is
>  this final image a real smp kernel? If not, do i need to apply
>  patches. Thanks!

Multiprocessor support is provided by default - there is no separate
smp kernel (from Fedora 7 onwards I think). You should not need to
apply additional patches.

O/T : I'm back from vacation though extremely jet-lagged.

Cheers
Chris

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